Hell Quizzes: Quizzes to a Street Preacher by Fr. Chas. M. Carty & Rev. Dr. L. Rumble

Author:Fr. Chas. M. Carty & Rev. Dr. L. Rumble [Carty, Fr. Chas. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TAN Books
Published: 2015-04-22T04:00:00+00:00

A RIGHT PERSPECTIVE

I have been dealing with isolated aspects of this whole question of hell, proposed as difficulties. But their very isolation destroys perspective. Firstly, it is a mistake to think that eternal things can be measured by ideas proper to finite men; and, secondly, it is a mistake to concentrate on individual attributes of God, such as His mercy, to the exclusion of all other attributes. As Leibuity, the non-Catholic philosopher, has remarked, "We know next to nothing of God's ways, and to wish to measure His wisdom and goodness with our finite ideas is absurd temerity." And our separation of God's attributes is not justified for purposes of objection. We must take all in their general connection, balancing one with another, and seeing each as the reason of the others. God is not just, and also good, and also merciful. He is justice, goodness, mercy. In the supreme unity of God these are one. It is the feebleness of our intelligence which suggests separation in these divine attributes. If hell, then, is demanded by God's justice, it is demanded by His goodness and mercy also. And if a soul is lost, it is allowed to lose itself both by God's justice and mercy.

Difficulties are bound to arise for us. But objections against the doctrine of hell are not justified; for he who objects supposes the doctrine of hell to be false. And that gives the lie to God, who has revealed hell to be a fact.

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